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The 19th and 20th centuries were marked by an era of scientific discovery. The physical, chemical and mathematical sciences flourished right from the beginning of this era. However, biological sciences were left much behind and were considered merely as a descriptive science. When the biologist had just discovered the cell, the building-block of every living…

Following paper is a very good review on the the current bioinformatics methods applied in Personalize Genomics and the challenges to understand the biological data. Capriotti E, Nehrt NL, Kann MG, Bromberg Y. Bioinformatics for personal genome interpretation.Brief Bioinform. 2012 Jan 13. Abstract: An international consortium released the first draft sequence of the human genome…

If you are looking to download batch of sequences from public database such as Genbank using the accession number, the following perl script that I’ve written may be quite handy. This script uses a BioPerl module “Bio::DB::GenBank“. All the accession number must be present within the file accnumber.txt each separated my a comma. And also,…

Following is a presentation byDavid Schindel discussing on the current standards in BARCODE data flag in GenBank and some of the burning issues in Species Name assignment across the database repository systems. It was presented in the recent “Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference” held at The University of Adelaide, Australia from 28 Nov –…

Here is a presentation by Dr Aron Fazekas discussing on some of the key issues in sequence analysis during Plant DNA Barcoding. It was presented in the recent “Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference” held at The University of Adelaide, Australia from 28 Nov – 3 Dec 2011. The presentation also includes narration from the…

Bioinformatics, these days, is much like a piece of ‘hot cake’ in the booming biotech business across the globe. Early works of bioinformatics began in the late 1960’s – early 1970’s. People working in this field were not aware of the term ‘bioinformatics’. It was only in 1978, Pauline Hogeweg and Ben Hesper coined the…